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        • ScottReinmuth
          ScottReinmuth last edited by

          Hello, I am just getting into SEO and I need some guidance with article submissions.

          I have read in many different places that submitting articles to other sites  (EzineArticles, Digg, Etc.) is a great way to build links back to your site.

          My question is, can I submit articles already posted on our site to these sites or is it best to write new articles?

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          • vinaso87
            vinaso87 last edited by

            Hello,

            I have submitted an article on my Digital Marketing Company in Surat on various Free Article Submission sites. I received an email from Hubpages.com for duplicate content on my article, the link is here as under:

            https://hubpages.com/business/SEO-Digital-Marketing-Courses-DigiMark-A-Professional-IT-company-in-Surat

            Please advise whether I can submit the same article to other sites? It will help to me.

            Thanks in advance,

            Nisha

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            • nationalncp
              nationalncp @TommyTan last edited by

              Thanks for the info tan. So if i make a blog outside and link it with my original website that's fine right?

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              • AnuSam
                AnuSam last edited by

                Hi,

                Please let me know if submitting the articles from a website on the other article submission sites is still harmful?

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                • ColinWhite
                  ColinWhite last edited by

                  Sometimes you can create multiple articles from the same idea as SEO covers such a broad spectrum of areas. Content should be about having fun and seeing how much value you can add to your niche. It will amaze you how many details that relate to your business or project can turn into valuable pieces of content. And forget about blasting out your content, just worry about building relationships. If you are adding value to a community and are relevant then shares and links will grow naturally. Remember slow and steady wins the race..

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                  • Craigseo
                    Craigseo last edited by

                    Adding the same article to multiple websites is going to cause an issue with duplicate content, this is not good practise and will not help you with your efforts.

                    My advice is to write unique articles for maximum benefit. Make sure that your articles are unique and not written for the search engines. Make them useful to potential visitors, as this can attract people linking to your article. Which is what you really want.

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                    • veezer
                      veezer last edited by

                      Hi Scott

                      My advice is contrary to some of the other responses here.

                      Based upon my recent (post-Penguin) experience I advise you to AVOID ARTICLE SYNDICATION LIKE THE PLAGUE.

                      Before Penguin, article syndication (submitting an article with a backlink for wide distribution was really a great way to rise quickly in the SERPs for Google.

                      However, as part of their effort to rid the web of duplicate pages, there is now a heavy penalty for doing that.

                      The standard advice used to be, "publish article 1st on your own blog/site, make sure it is indexed, and then let 'er rip".

                      Today, that will get you to page 400 in Google SERP.

                      Cutt advise to only syndicate with care, if you can ensure a direct backlink to your original indexed post (which you cannot do once the post is "turned loose").

                      Stay away from article distribution.

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                      • SlavaRybalka
                        SlavaRybalka last edited by

                        Try to re-purpose your article. For example you can make an infographic out of your original article. Then you can make a Google+ submission. Then you can make a video slideshow out of this infographic and submit it to YouTube. Then you can create a poll or a survey at the end of your article and convert the answers you get into a new post on your website.

                        Better invest in your own website than in other people's sites.

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                        • TommyTan
                          TommyTan last edited by

                          Hi Scott,

                          Glad you getting into SEO.

                          Yes, you are correct that submitting articles to other sites is a great way to build links back to your site.  HOWEVER, those are strategies and tactics people used probably 3 years ago.  Google see that people are doing that instead of building quality/natural links, they rolled out Penguin and Panda to prevent people from doing that.  By doing so, you are creating something called Duplicate content and that will either harm your website ranking or your website may not show up in the search results because the website where you submitted the article has better ranking than you.  Therefore, they are showing the other website instead.

                          It is best to write new articles and post it in the blog under your website's domain.  Such as blog.website.com or website.com/blog.  This will give your website more benefits of freshness and more content to crawl and possibly backlinks and social signal for your blog/website.  Thus increases your chance of appearing in SERP with more content and higher ranking due to backlinks to your website.

                          Hope this helps.

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